World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-06

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[0:00] News two

[0:04] >> on World News Tonight this Sunday. More

[0:06] talk but no action. NATO and Yugoslav

[0:09] officials meet for a second day but make

[0:11] little headway on the road to peace. The

[0:14] baseball promotion sparking debate over

[0:16] the separation of church and home plate.

[0:20] >> June and January and January and June.

[0:23] >> And in California, where has all the

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[0:32] From ABC,

[0:35] this is World News Tonight Sunday.

[0:39] >> Good evening. I'm Antonio Mora. Tonight,

[0:41] NATO is again bombing the suburbs of

[0:44] Bgrade. The renewed strikes come during

[0:46] a second day of talks between NATO and

[0:48] Yugoslav military officials. Today, many

[0:51] more hours of discussion about how and

[0:53] when Serb troops will withdraw from

[0:55] Kosovo. But tonight there is little

[0:58] progress to show. We begin with ABC's

[1:00] Sheila McVicker.

[1:02] >> The day started with promise.

[1:04] >> Mr. Jackson, are you hopeful?

[1:06] >> Hopeful that this second day of

[1:07] discussions would end with the Serbs

[1:09] signing the document to implement the

[1:11] peace plan. There were clearly problems.

[1:14] As the hours dragged on, NATO summoned

[1:16] technical advisers to try to work them

[1:18] out. Some were logistical. 7 days to

[1:21] withdraw just wasn't enough. The

[1:23] Yugoslav said they didn't have enough

[1:25] gas to move their vehicles. Some had

[1:27] broken down and too many roads have been

[1:30] made impassible by NATO bombing. A more

[1:32] serious problem. NATO had demanded the

[1:35] withdrawal of all Yuguslav police and

[1:37] military including the 20,000 Serve

[1:40] police who live in Kosova. On this, the

[1:43] Yugoslav generals boed.

[1:45] >> Well, you'll have to speak to the

[1:46] Yuguslavs about the problems. They have

[1:48] not signed the document. Until there is

[1:50] agreement here, there can be no

[1:52] deployment of NATO forces. And aid

[1:54] agencies now warned that may result in

[1:57] the deaths of hundreds of Kosovo

[1:59] Albanians.

[2:00] >> More than 500,000 ethnic Albanians still

[2:03] in Kosovo are believed to have fled

[2:05] their homes, living now in the mountains

[2:07] with little food. The International

[2:09] Rescue Committee had just this week

[2:11] started airdropping food to some of

[2:14] them.

[2:14] >> We know that people are starving to

[2:16] death each day. And while these talks

[2:19] drag on, uh, there are very limited ways

[2:22] to help these people.

[2:23] >> At NATO headquarters in Brussels, there

[2:25] is a growing suspicion the Serbs may be

[2:28] deliberately stalling.

[2:29] >> If the Yugoslav forces uh dillydally uh

[2:32] and therefore uh delay their withdrawal

[2:35] in order to go and burn a few more

[2:36] villages, then we will be able to verify

[2:38] that very very quickly and those forces

[2:41] will be liable to NATO air strikes.

[2:45] Air strikes are continuing tonight in

[2:47] Kosovo and in Serbia. Meanwhile, the

[2:50] talks at the Kumova airfield are still

[2:52] suspended. They have been suspended for

[2:54] several hours. It is not clear why that

[2:57] suspension has taken place. And as a

[3:00] matter of fact, we know very little

[3:01] about what the problems are. Antonio,

[3:03] >> how what is the little that we do know,

[3:05] Sheila?

[3:08] >> Well, there's been this issue about

[3:10] seven days withdrawal. The Serbs said,

[3:11] "Look, we have just have too many

[3:12] logistics difficulties. we don't have

[3:14] enough gas, we have too many vehicles

[3:15] broken down. And what they have been

[3:17] told instead is, okay, if 7 days isn't

[3:19] enough, then you can have 10. But there

[3:21] clearly are larger issues. And there is

[3:23] a suggestion tonight that some of the

[3:25] basic principles of the peace agreement

[3:27] that the Serbs signed on to in Belgrade

[3:29] earlier this week may in fact now not be

[3:32] acceptable to the Serbs, which is truly

[3:35] an unusual development and something

[3:37] that NATO didn't expect to happen. After

[3:39] all, this was supposed to be not a

[3:40] negotiation, but a military technical

[3:43] document. Simply sitting down, reading

[3:45] the document, and signing on to it. And

[3:47] that is not what is happening tonight.

[3:48] Antonio,

[3:49] >> thanks. ABC's Sheila McVicker. The delay

[3:51] in the peace talks has dashed any chance

[3:54] of a formal halt in NATO bombing this

[3:56] weekend. It has also raised a host of

[3:58] questions. ABC's Andrew McCarron is at

[4:01] the White House tonight.

[4:04] Air Force B-52s dropped bombs on

[4:06] Yugoslav army positions on the Albanian

[4:09] Kosovo border as a way to pressure the

[4:11] Serbs to agree quickly on a plan for

[4:14] troop withdrawal from Kosovo. The

[4:16] bombing reinforced the point made by

[4:18] Defense Secretary William Cohen on ABC's

[4:21] This Week that the Serbs should move

[4:23] quickly.

[4:24] >> The time frame is not significant. We

[4:26] have to be concerned about there's no

[4:28] slow rolling here. We're not going to

[4:29] allow any kind of deliberate policy of

[4:32] delaying day by day.

[4:34] >> Officials fear that delays could worsen

[4:36] widespread hunger among Albanians still

[4:38] inside Kosovo and would allow looting by

[4:41] Serb forces in Pristina to continue.

[4:43] >> Troops may be trying to sort of help

[4:45] themselves uh before finally departing

[4:48] uh Kosovo. Uh it looks as if they intend

[4:51] to leave as they began, which is

[4:54] extremely unfortunate. There is

[4:55] suspicion among the allies that the

[4:57] Serbs may be stalling in order to

[4:59] dispose of evidence of war crimes.

[5:01] >> There have been several reports

[5:03] throughout the last 10 weeks of uh of

[5:06] bodies being burned in former industrial

[5:08] sites in Kosovo.

[5:10] >> Tomorrow, G8 foreign ministers will meet

[5:12] in Germany to draft a UN resolution

[5:15] among other things that will set up a

[5:17] command structure for a post-war

[5:19] security force in Kosovo. Antonia,

[5:21] >> thanks Andrea. And McCarron at the White

[5:24] House. Still ahead on World News Tonight

[5:26] this Sunday, the Pope's warning to his

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[7:16] >> In Poland on his historic trip home,

[7:18] Pope John Paul II urged strong ties to

[7:21] religious tradition. He is concerned

[7:24] because the future of the Polish

[7:25] faithful is somewhat in doubt. ABC's

[7:28] Bill Blakemore is traveling with the

[7:30] Pope.

[7:32] It's not just that he's looking better

[7:33] than he has in a couple of years.

[7:37] >> What's most notable about this trip is

[7:38] how relaxed everyone seems. And that's

[7:41] the point. This trip celebrates, as the

[7:43] president of Poland told him, a once

[7:45] impossible dream, having freedom feel

[7:48] normal in Poland, which he said this

[7:50] pope made possible.

[7:53] On his first trip here 20 years ago, he

[7:56] demanded freedom and sparked the

[7:57] formation of a solidarity trade union

[8:01] for the aging Solidarity leaders. He

[8:03] recalled how they drove out communism 10

[8:06] years ago.

[8:08] I take joy, he said, in our country's

[8:10] new economic success. In only 10 years,

[8:14] Poland has become a free trade miracle.

[8:16] Its economy growing an astounding 5% a

[8:19] year. In the old Communist Party

[8:21] headquarters, now Warsaw's busy stock

[8:24] exchange, complete with Wall Street

[8:26] style suspenders and school kids brought

[8:29] in to see how it's done.

[8:31] >> They're too young to remember the

[8:32] communist ways their teacher describes.

[8:35] They find it funny. I think what I sent

[8:39] to them about past time

[8:41] >> where once it took months to get a

[8:42] refrigerator, the problem now is which

[8:45] one to buy. Supermarket checkouts are

[8:47] filled with the families of a growing

[8:49] middle class. The problem that the Pope

[8:51] is trying to head off here is that of

[8:54] success. Now that the polls have won

[8:56] their freedom and prosperity, can he

[8:59] keep them faithful to his church? church

[9:02] attendance has begun to slip. So, he

[9:04] keeps reminding them how it was the

[9:06] spirit of the church that unified them

[9:08] in hard times

[9:10] and leads them in their old solidarity

[9:12] hymn, hoping they won't forget the faith

[9:15] that helped lead them to good fortune.

[9:18] Bill Blakemore, ABC News, traveling with

[9:20] the Pope.

[9:21] In this country, the separation of

[9:23] church and state is at the heart of a

[9:25] legal battle. A battle that began in a

[9:28] baseball park. Here's ABC's Tim O'Brien.

[9:32] When it comes to minor league baseball,

[9:35] >> promotion is the name of the game. And

[9:37] the Hagerstown, Maryland Suns, like many

[9:39] teams, will use any gimmick to fill

[9:42] empty seats, including the ever popular

[9:44] Church Bulletin Day.

[9:46] >> I think it's a good thing. I believe in

[9:47] it.

[9:48] >> Fans who showed up today with a Sunday

[9:50] church bulletin from any church got in

[9:52] for only a dollar. Church bulletin day

[9:54] has been a big hit here with most fans,

[9:57] but not with at least one fan who scores

[9:59] this promotion. A wild pitch.

[10:03] >> Well, I'm an agnostic freethinker. Uh I

[10:06] don't I'm not religious. Uh I don't

[10:09] attend church, so I don't have church

[10:12] bulletins.

[10:13] >> Silverman claims giving a discount to

[10:15] churchgoers discriminates against people

[10:17] who don't go to church. and he's taken

[10:20] the team to court with the backing of

[10:22] the American Civil Liberties Union.

[10:24] >> At the federal level, at the state

[10:25] level, and at the local level, there are

[10:27] public accommodation laws that prohibit

[10:30] denying somebody privileges or

[10:32] advantages based on religion.

[10:34] >> The players on the Hagerstown Suns

[10:36] literally wear their religion in the

[10:38] form of a halo on their sleeves.

[10:40] >> It's an issue of family values. We feel

[10:44] we're, as I said, we're taking the

[10:45] assets of our community and tying those

[10:47] two things together. family values,

[10:49] baseball and church.

[10:50] >> But Silverman maintains the team could

[10:52] promote all kinds of values without

[10:54] using religion as a means to

[10:56] discriminate.

[10:57] >> All they needed to do was to broaden the

[10:59] promotion to allow not only church

[11:02] bulletins, but any nonprofit

[11:03] organization bulletin such as the

[11:05] Ottabon Society or uh say a Satanist

[11:08] group bulletin.

[11:09] >> The team owner says no deal.

[11:11] >> Believe me, there's a lot of people that

[11:13] take a lot of offense to a lot of things

[11:14] we do. This one sort of takes the cake

[11:17] in our mind.

[11:18] Shortly after Silverman filed his

[11:20] complaint, another minor league team

[11:21] across the state, the Buoie Bay Socks,

[11:24] discontinued a similar church bulletin

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[11:30] question whether the laws against

[11:32] discrimination require putting some

[11:34] distance between two matters many

[11:36] Americans hold dear, religion and

[11:39] baseball. Tim O'Brien, ABC News,

[11:41] Hagerstown, Maryland.

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[14:07] just after 2:00 Eastern time this

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[14:32] Teenagers, Saturday nights, and parties.

[14:34] A predictable mix, but last night, a

[14:37] twist on the usual. Hundreds of cities

[14:39] took part in this year's Safe Night USA.

[14:42] Here's ABC's Ned Potter.

[14:45] >> Nighttime in America, it's a tough place

[14:47] to be a teen.

[14:48] >> There's a real sense of there's nothing

[14:51] to do. They want to have fun and they

[14:54] don't feel safe. A lot of teens are

[14:55] tired of the violence that's going

[14:57] around. What we're trying to do is get

[14:59] them off the street for this night.

[15:01] Instead of them like selling drugs or

[15:03] anything, they're here having a good

[15:05] time.

[15:07] The idea is called Safe Night. Events

[15:10] last night at,00 community centers and

[15:13] gyms around the country. Young people

[15:15] coming for music, food, and to hang out

[15:18] instead of dodging trouble in the

[15:19] streets.

[15:20] >> They're coming here because they don't

[15:22] have to worry about washing their back.

[15:23] The rules are you can't get drunk into a

[15:24] fight, so they don't have to worry about

[15:26] violence. and is safe.

[15:27] >> Olu Jiuadi works with young people in

[15:30] Milwaukee and organized the first safe

[15:32] night there five years ago. This weekend

[15:35] it went national broadcast across the

[15:37] country. Organizers believe close to a

[15:40] million young people might have taken

[15:42] part.

[15:43] >> This inspires the kids. They they know

[15:45] that somebody's out there thinking about

[15:47] them.

[15:48] >> Obviously, a party night is not going to

[15:50] solve all the problems of youth in

[15:51] America, but it can help. In Milwaukee

[15:54] since they began, the teen murder rate

[15:56] has gone down 60%. And safe nights get

[15:59] part of the credit. Part of safe night

[16:02] success is that the parties are largely

[16:04] organized by teenagers. So that one

[16:06] brief lesson from adults is okay.

[16:08] >> What we want to do today, we're going to

[16:10] talk about conflict resolution.

[16:11] >> Organizers say though a lot of kids act

[16:14] tough, they really just want someone to

[16:16] care.

[16:16] >> It's not the answer on one night, but

[16:18] it's one night at a time. They want a

[16:21] place to go where they can feel safe. Ed

[16:24] Potter, ABC News, New York.

[16:27] On Tuesday, legislation is expected to

[16:30] be introduced in Congress that will

[16:31] stiffen penalties against those who

[16:33] pedal counterfeit products. As ABC's

[16:36] Lisa Salters reports, knockoffs can pose

[16:39] a host of hazards to both businesses and

[16:42] consumers.

[16:44] >> When police raided this Southern

[16:46] California home,

[16:47] >> everything in here is counterfeit. They

[16:49] found room after room filled with

[16:51] counterfeit clothing, enough to supply a

[16:53] small department store.

[16:55] >> The quantity that was picked up today,

[16:56] we would normally pick up at a factory

[16:58] or at a large warehouse.

[17:00] >> The family running this operation bought

[17:02] cheap knockoff jeans and shirts and

[17:04] sewed designer labels onto them. They

[17:06] made as much as $10,000 a week. Each

[17:10] year, counterfeits cost the US more than

[17:12] $200 billion. And it's not just clothing

[17:15] they're knocking off. It's often

[17:17] products you would never imagine. Candy,

[17:20] shampoo, car parts, prescription drugs,

[17:24] everything from birth control pills to

[17:25] Viagra, even baby formula. Tara Schmer

[17:29] had no idea that the Similac she bought

[17:31] for her then infant son was not the real

[17:34] thing until she found out about it on

[17:36] the news.

[17:37] >> I thought I was giving him formula that

[17:39] was good for him. And I found out that I

[17:41] was giving him something that nobody

[17:42] knew what it was.

[17:44] >> Yeah. And put the whole thing in.

[17:46] Schmer's son had no reaction to the fake

[17:48] formula. Other parents were not so

[17:50] fortunate. The counterfeit product

[17:52] caused vomiting and diarrhea in dozens

[17:54] of children. They all bought the formula

[17:56] at legitimate stores in Northern

[17:58] California. Authorities later found out

[18:00] that the stores had been taken in by a

[18:03] dishonest supplier.

[18:04] >> Their profits are enormous because

[18:06] they're selling garbage. John Paul

[18:08] Deoria did not know that his popular

[18:10] hair care products were being

[18:12] counterfeited until he got a complaint

[18:14] from a panicked customer.

[18:15] >> It was used by a person who broke out in

[18:18] a rash on their face. They called us,

[18:19] "What do we do? What do we do?" Well,

[18:21] when we traced it down, it wasn't our

[18:23] product. It was a counterfeit product.

[18:25] >> Not all consumers are fooled. Some buy

[18:28] counterfeit products knowingly and are

[18:30] happy to take the risk as long as they

[18:32] believe they're getting a good deal. But

[18:34] federal officials say there's a larger

[18:36] concern that the profits from these

[18:38] deals fund other illegal activities.

[18:41] Lisa Salters, ABC News, Los Angeles.

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[21:32] you're in the same room with them, and

[21:33] you and you walk out alive, it's it's

[21:37] kind of hard,

[21:39] especially when we're doing the same

[21:41] job.

[21:42] And it could have been me. Sometimes it

[21:45] makes you want to

[21:47] wish you could have traded places.

[21:51] It was just a basic routine house fire,

[21:54] which I've been on hundreds of times.

[21:56] >> 3146 Cherry Road Northeast.

[21:59] >> We just had a dense smoke. We didn't see

[22:02] any fire. We felt the heat coming from

[22:04] the back. We crawled toward the back.

[22:06] Maybe about 10 or 15 seconds later, we

[22:09] just saw a little flash of fire behind

[22:12] us. We turned around and we put that

[22:14] out. And once we put that out, just felt

[22:17] the heat. An incredible incredible

[22:19] amount of heat. Heat like um heat like

[22:22] I've never felt before. Just like you

[22:25] were in a Somebody just just threw me in

[22:27] a furnace and shut the door. I grabbed

[22:30] the hose line and um felt my way back a

[22:33] little ways and then I saw a little

[22:35] daylight

[22:36] and then I just ran as hard and fast as

[22:40] I could and they went inside to try to

[22:42] pull um firefighter Philips and Matthews

[22:44] out and um and when they brought him out

[22:46] it was just terrible.

[22:50] I've been

[22:52] just praying to myself and just thinking

[22:57] just

[23:00] if I'm just real blessed right now. I'm

[23:03] real blessed. You know, everybody's just

[23:05] just a bond there. It's just like just

[23:08] like a family. Um everybody looks out

[23:10] for everybody on the job and off the

[23:11] job. I say since I've been on this job,

[23:13] it's the the greatest thing that ever

[23:15] happened to me. And I wouldn't I

[23:17] wouldn't trade it even with the burns

[23:20] and the and the and the losses and

[23:23] everything. I wouldn't trade it for

[23:24] nothing.

[23:26] >> Brave men. Lieutenant Charles Reading of

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[23:30] Coming up, trying to figure out

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[26:01] mercury in the Golden State has taken a

[26:04] detour downward. Southern California,

[26:07] known for its glorious weather, is

[26:08] having well, a temperature crisis.

[26:11] Details from ABC's Judy Mueller.

[26:15] Welcome to not so sunny California,

[26:18] complete with rain and wrecks, hail and

[26:21] crop damage, fog that lingers, and snow

[26:25] that sticks. At least at higher

[26:26] elevations, weathermen are at a loss for

[26:29] words.

[26:30] >> Can you believe this weather? It is

[26:32] really something.

[26:33] >> Californians are calling it Junuary.

[26:36] >> June and January and January and June.

[26:39] >> The reason for this topsyturvy weather

[26:41] is leninia, the climate pattern that

[26:43] brings colder than normal ocean and air

[26:45] temperatures in the summer. It follows

[26:47] the more notorious El Nino, which

[26:49] brought very warm water and air to

[26:51] California during the winter. Well,

[26:53] think of it as a pendulum that swings

[26:55] too far one way and as the climate

[26:57] system tries to repair itself, it goes

[27:00] too far the other way.

[27:01] >> And so at the beach, the air temperature

[27:04] is now 10 to 20° lower than normal. And

[27:07] the water,

[27:08] >> but right now it's a comfortable 63 and

[27:10] it's probably going to get warmer. Um,

[27:13] >> comfortable

[27:14] >> comfortable for some of us.

[27:16] >> It's not that Californians are whining.

[27:18] After all, every year they put up with

[27:19] what's known as June gloom when the

[27:21] beaches are overcast. But this year

[27:23] they're worried that June will last all

[27:26] summer.

[27:26] >> I don't know if there's really going to

[27:27] be a summer. I mean, this is June and I

[27:29] got my sweatshirt and my jacket.

[27:31] >> It's like it's so foggy and nasty.

[27:34] Nobody wants to come out.

[27:35] >> Hardly the stereotypic image we've come

[27:38] to expect.

[27:38] >> The idea that Southern California would

[27:41] not be warm and sunny is like suddenly

[27:43] saying, "You'll go to New York and you

[27:44] won't be insulted." People are still

[27:46] coming to the beach, of course, but

[27:48] unless they're willing to work up a good

[27:50] sweat, they're likely to stay in their

[27:52] sweats. Judy Mueller, ABC News, Santa

[27:55] Monica.

[27:57] >> That is our report for tonight. Tomorrow

[27:58] on Good Morning America, an interview

[28:00] with Michael Jordan. And then on World

[28:02] News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Peter

[28:04] Jennings will report live from Macedonia

[28:06] near the site of the peace talks. Peter

[28:10] >> Antonio, in Macedonia, where we are now,

[28:13] in Albania, where we were yesterday,

[28:16] hundreds of thousands of ethnic

[28:17] Albanians from Kosovo are still totally

[28:19] uncertain about the future, even if they

[28:22] believe the war has actually stopped.

[28:24] Many will try to leave here and go to

[28:25] places they know absolutely nothing

[28:27] about, including the United States.

[28:31] >> Thank you, Peter. I'm Antonio Mora.

[28:33] Thank you all for joining us. From all

[28:34] of us here at ABC News, have a great

[28:36] night.

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